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Las Vegas based hard rock band Otherwise has entered the studio to start work on its latest album.

Peace at All Costs will be the band’s second full length release for Century Media Records and third overall full length release. It is being produced by Grammy Award-winning producer David Bottrill (Tool, Flaw, Muse, Stone Sour, Godsmack, Staind, Peter Gabriel) in Las Vegas at Audio Mix House and Vegas View Recording Studios. Front man Adrian Patrick discussed bringing Bottrill on board to man the boards for this record and how much it means to have him on board for the record’s creation. “We’ve always felt different from other bands; not just as performers but as people also,” he said. Being in the studio with an elite producer like David Bottrill, knowing his impressively diverse resume and discerning taste in the artists he chooses to work with, only reinforces our resolve. Our next album, “Peace at All Costs,” will prove what we are capable of.”

The band will take a short break from working on its album next Saturday, April 12th as it is scheduled to take part in Orlando, Florida’s annual Earthday Birthday Festival.

George Cappellini, Sr. (Former VP of Promotion for Geffen Records and VP of Rock Promotion for Elektra Records) co-manages Otherwise. He was very excited in talking to the press about the past, present, and future of Otherwise. “I wanted to work the band to radio after hearing “Soldiers” on Octane,” he said. Fast forward two years later after 200+ shows, two Top 20 Singles, and now being a part of the management team, this band has grown into a powerhouse right before our eyes. You will all hear that on their sophomore album.”

Century Media Records head Robert Kampf has already had a listen to some of the material that fans will get to hear later this year. He put in the simplest terms what he thought of what he heard. He told reporters, After hearing the demos for the new album, OTHERWISE is going to be the future of rock, period.”

Tribute albums are a dime a dozen. So many tribute albums are released each year that one can’t help but feel that the labels that release them care more about their bottom line than about actually celebrating said artists being given tribute. That being the case, one can’t help but wonder why This Is Your Life, the new tribute album to iconic rock front man Ronnie James Dio, would be any different from those records. The answer to that is not a simple one. One reason that this tribute album stands out is the list of performers and bands that recorded songs for the compilation. It’s a who’s who of hard rock from the past, present, and even future of the genre. Another reason that this compilation stands out is its track listing. This record boasts some of the most beloved songs of RJD’s career. And last but definitely not least important to consider in this record is the fact that it isn’t just a means for the label distributing it to make money. It actually doubles as a fundraiser for RJD’s Stand Up and Shout Cancer Fund. So it’s actually a record crafted to essentially help give back. How many bands, artists, groups, etc. can say that they have crafted an entire album simply to raise funds for charity? That–along with the list of songs and performers, bands, etc. on this album–makes This Is Your Life an album that stands well above the rest of the otherwise throw-away albums claiming to be tribute albums.

Courtesy: Rhino Records

The primary aspect of This Is Your Life that makes it stand out against all of the other tribute albums out there is the list of performers drafted to record songs for the record. The list of performers drafted for this record is a who’s who of hard rock’s past, present, and even future. It wasn’t just a mish-mash of bands, artists and groups tossed together. Everybody tapped to record for this tribute record is either a counterpart to RJD or someone that grew up idolizing him and his talents. Veterans such as Anthrax, Motorhead, Scorpions, Biff Byford, and Rob Halford perform alongside younger acts such as Adrenaline Mob, Killswitch Engage, and Halestorm over the course of the record’s fourteen total tracks. That collection of bands and artists singing Dio’s hits is in itself a musical history lesson. It introduces younger audiences that might be more familiar with the latter grouping of bands and artists to the veterans and to the music of Dio. To that extent, This Is Your Life quickly earns major points. Even more points come from the sampling of Dio’s music in question chosen for this compilation.

The list of bands, artists, and groups tapped to record RJD’s music for This Is Your Life is in itself a major boon for the record. As noted, it isn’t just a mish-mash of bands, artists, and groups. It is a collection of bands, group, and artists that played alongside Dio during his career, and those that have come since, growing up with the music of Ronnie James Dio. In short, it’s a collection of individuals that have the utmost respect for Dio and his music. Speaking of that music, the songs chosen to be included on this record are another part of the whole that makes it so enjoyable for listeners. Every song on this record is a classic in its own way. From the more well-known pieces such as ‘The Mob Rules’, ‘Neon Knights’ and ‘Holy Diver’ to slightly lesser known songs such as ‘Straight Through The Heart’, Egypt (The Chains Are On’, and ‘Temple of the King’ This Is Your Life does quite the job of chronicling the career of a man that was and is still even in death, one of the greatest vocalists and performers in the history of hard rock.

The music and performers chosen for This Is Your Life are both key components of the success of the album. As important as they are to the success of the record, there is still one central aspect of the recording that makes it so worth picking up. That aspect is the fact that a certain portion of the sales of the album will go to benefit Dio’s Stand Up and Shout Cancer Fund, which was established by Dio’s wife Wendy Dio. Bands, groups and artists go out on tour every year or they take part in fundraising concerts. How many artists can say they were part of a recording project that was also meant as a way to pay tribute to one of their own, too? It’s just like bringing home a hard rock festival without having to pay the exorbitant prices for tickets, souvenirs, sodas and more. And at the same time, audiences that purchase the album will actually be helping to fund an organization that works to research and promote awareness of cancer, as well as educate people about early detection in hopes of one day stopping it.

Ozzy Osbourne guitarist and Firewind front man Gus G. will release his debut solo album this Spring. I Am The Fire is scheduled to be released March 18th in the United States. It will be released March 17th in Europe. It will be released worldwide via Century Media Records. Before he releases his debut, Gus G. has released a brand new EPK that offers audiences a look inside the making of the album. Fans can check out the new EPK online now via YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJd38EoTLkA&feature=youtu.be.

The album’s title track is impacting radio now. It is currently playing on Sirius RadioXM Octane. It will be added to mainstream radio stations’ playlists beginning next Tuesday, February 18th. It features the members of hard rock band Devour The Day as special guests. It will go on sale digitally via iTunes February 25th. The track listing for I Am The Fire is listed below.

Organizers of the annual “Welcome To Rockville” Festival presented by Monster Energy have released more information on this year’s festival. 2013 is the festival’s third year being held. Performance times for bands on each stage have officially been released. The “Monster Energy Main Stage East” opens with a performance by Pop Evil at 12:40pm. Pop Evil will be followed by All That Remains, Halestorm, Papa Roach, Stone Sour, and headliners Alice in Chains. Alice in Chains takes the “Monster Energy Main Stage East” at 9:45pm. The “Monster Energy Main Stage West” is just one of the many stages from which audiences have to choose during the festival. A full listing of bands and performance times is available below.

Saturday, April 27

Monster Energy Main Stage East

12:40 PM Pop Evil

2:05 PM All That Remains

3:35 PM Halestorm

5:25 PM Papa Roach

7:25 PM Stone Sour

9:45 PM Alice In Chains

Monster Energy Main Stage West

12:05 PM Young Guns

1:20 PM In This Moment

2:50 PM Asking Alexandria

4:30 PM Bullet For My Valentine

6:20 PM Three Days Grace

8:30 PM Limp Bizkit

Emerging Artist Stage

Noon RockvilleRumble Winner

1:00 PM Hell Or Highwater

2:10 PM Gemini Syndrome

3:20 PM Whitechapel

4:45 PM Otherwise

6:20 PM Escape The Fate

Jax Live Stage

11:30 AM RockvilleRumble Winner

12:30 PM Edens Fill

1:40 PM RockvilleRumble Winner

2:50 PM RockvilleRumble Winner

4:05 PM Stars In Stereo

5:35 PM MonstrO

7:25 PM RockvilleRumble Winner

Sunday, April 28

Monster Energy Main Stage East

11:45 AM Red

12:55 PM Saving Abel

2:30 PM Filter

4:10 PM Skillet

6:05 PM 3 Doors Down

8:35 PM Lynyrd Skynyrd

Monster Energy Main Stage West

11:15 AM Farewell 2 Fear

12:20 PM Nonpoint

1:40 PM Steel Panther

3:20 PM Hollywood Undead

5:05 PM Buckcherry

7:15 PM Shinedown

Emerging Artist Stage

11:20 AM Nebraska Bricks

12:20 PM Soulswitch

1:25 PM Girl On Fire

2:35 PM Saliva

3:45 PM Motionless In White

5:10 PM Device

6:50 PM Nothing More

Jax Live Stage

11:50 AM (N)ception

12:55 PM The Apprehended

2:05 PM RockvilleRumble Winner

3:15 PM RockvilleRumble Winner

4:40 PM RockvilleRumble Winner

6:15 PM RockvilleRumble Winner

The whole party will be preceded by the “Rockville Downtown Experience presented by Corona Light” pre-party on Friday, April 26th. Two post-show parties will be held Saturday, April 27th. Admission to these parties is FREE. Friday’s show will feature Saliva, Evergreen Terrace, and Victr as entertainment. The bands will perform live at the Underbelly in Jacksonville, FL. More information on this party is available online at http://www.jaxunderbelly.com. Saturday’s after-parties will feature performances by DJ Monk and Robert Goodman at 1904 Music Hall in Jacksonville, FL (http://www.facebook.com/1904MusicHall, http://www.1904MusicHall.com) and Icey at the Underbelly.

Fans that attend the festival will have plenty of opportunities to get their CDs, shirts, and more signed by their favorite band(s) at the f.y.e. tent and other onsite locations. There will also be interactive experiences such as a gaming area and Dave’s Crazy Music Experience. This experience lets fans find out for themselves what it’s like to make music in a studio environment. It includes actual guitars, drums, basses, and all the gear used by today’s top acts.

Tickets are still available for this year’s festival. Prices are listed below.

Along with the listed ticket prices, “no service fee tickets” are available at specific Metro PCS locations. More information on this is available online at http://www.welcometorockvillefestival.com/tickets.html. A limited number of VIP tickets and hotel packages are still available. They can be purchased online at http://www.WelcomeToRockvilleFestival.com. VIP tickets include entrance to all concerts through a VIP entrance, access to VIP lounge featuring dedicated bar, beverage and food service, viewing of the Monster Main Stage (both seated and standing areas), a seated area with shade for dining, private bathrooms and laminated VIP guest pass.

Oleander is back with its fifth full length studio release. The band’s new album, Something Beautiful set to be released next Tuesday, April 16th.

Oleander has come a long way since the days of its breakout 1993 hit, ‘Why I’m Here.’ This latest release from the Sacramento, California based band shows a lot of growth all the way around. It has more of a pure rock sound and less like something that would be more fitting for any top 40 station. This is actually a very good thing. Something Beautiful opens with a high energy rocker in ‘Fight!’ This song is an excellent opener, with its driving guitars and chants of “Fight!/Fight!/Fight!/Fighting for our lives!” Front man Thomas Flowers isn’t singing about literally fighting for one’s lives. It comes across in more of a metaphorical sense. He sings, “It’s a little bit late now/To look at the clock/There’s not a moment to waste/And not a second to wait/We gotta pick up the pace/There’s no time left to stop/Keepin’ your heartbeat racing/Feel it with every breath you’re takin’/And it’s all or nothing now/Standing on pins and needles/my mind’s in overdrive/Fight for our lives!” It comes across as a statement of making the most of every second in life, and doing whatever it takes to succeed. Keeping this in mind, the song’s musical side makes for a solid companion to its lyrical side and together, the pair makes it a solid first impression after just over ten years between albums.

‘Fight!’ is followed up by two more equally driving songs in its title track and the follow-up, ‘Bulletproof’ before pulling back just a little bit in the ballad, ‘Until It’s Over.’ ‘Until It’s Over’ is exactly what audiences expect from a ballad. It starts off softly with a semi-acoustic sound before moving into something slightly heavier. Flowers sings about a person’s devotion to a relationship here. He sings, “I ain’t going anywhere/Not walking out/Not leaving.” He goes on presenting a handful of worst case scenarios that could break a relationship for one reason or another. But through it all, the figure in his song declares his (or her even?) dedication no matter what. It’s one for all the romantics out there.

Things pick back up after ‘Until It’s Over’ as the band moves into ‘Never Too Late.’ The band keeps the energy flowing straight through ‘Daylight’ before pulling back again and ending more gently with ‘How Do We Say Goodbye.’ There is a bonus song that is just as subtle after this piece. By the time listeners reach this point, they know that having listened through this whole album, they have realized that while Oleander may not have released a new album in ten years, this band hasn’t missed a step with this new release. The band is hitting the road in support of Something Beautiful with a tour beginning next Saturday, April 20th. The band will be at Buzzfest in The Woodlands, TX alongside Bush, Shinedown, Stone Sour, and Hollywood Undead. More tour dates are possible. For a full tour rundown and all the latest tour dates, news and more, fans can follow Oleander on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/oleanderband and its official website, http://www.oleander.net.

A brand new music festival is coming to Florida. The first annual Fort Rock festival will be held Sunday, Aril 14th at the JetBlue Park in Fort Meyers, Florida. The festival’s initial lineup has already been announced. It includes: The Offspring, 3 Doors Down, Stone Sour, Papa Roach, Volbeat, In This Moment, Escape The Fate, Device (with David Draiman), Pop Evil, Otherwise, Mindset Evolution, and a whole bunch more. Tickets go on sale Saturday, February 23rd at 6am EST and will be available online at http://www.FortRockFestival.com. General Admission tickets are $44.50. General Admission Party 4-Packs are also available at a cost of $129.50. VIP tickets are available for $89. Discounted hotel tickets will be available soon. There will be two pre-sale events before general tickets go on sale. The pre-sales will take place on the Fort Rock website as well.

Fort Rock is produced by Danny Wimmer Presents and AEG, part of the team behind the annual Rock on the Range festival, Carolina Rebellion festival and Welcome to Rockville festival. It is sponsored by Fort Meyers radio station 99X, Monster Energy, Jagermeister, and f.y.e.

Concert organizers with the Rock Vegas Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada have officially announced the band lineup for the upcoming weekend long September Festival.

On Friday, september 28th, Shinedown will be performing. They’ll be joined by: Godsmack, Staind, Papa Roach, P.O.D., Adelitas Way, Deuce, and Redlight King.

Rob zombie and Marilyn Manson will take to the stage Saturday, September 29th. They’ll be joined throughout the day by: Stone Sour, Buckcherry, All That Remains, Art of Dying, New Medicine, and Otherwise.

Tickets are now onl sale for the Rock Vegas Festival. They are as affordable as $39 (plus fees. VIP packagaes are also available. Concert goers can get discount hotel rates through Mandalay Bay, Luxor and Excalibur. To get tickets, VIP packages, and hotel reservations, go online to http://www.RockVegasFest.com.

Anyone interested in coming to Rock Vegas Fest is being offered a very special opportunity courtesy of the festival and its sponsor, Rockstar Energy Drink. Rockstar Energy Drink and Rock Vegas are offering two lucky concert goers a trip for two with roundtrip airfare fully covered. The two lucky guests will also get free hotel accomodations, airport transfers, $500 spending money, and VIP treatment at the festival. To enter for this contest, go online to http://www.rockvegasfest.com/flyaway. The contest is currently open, and entries will be accepted until August 26th.